Short Circuit remake in the works

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=51690

Dimension Films has acquired remake rights to the 1986 SF comedy film Short Circuit, about Number 5, a military robot that develops a conscience and personality after being hit by lightning, Variety reported.

S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, who created the characters and wrote both Short Circuit films, have been hired to write the remake. David Foster and Ryan E. Heppe will produce with John Hyde.

The deal was made by Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein, who called Short Circuit a worthy addition to its family film slate.

Gosh darnit!! Why can't they leave well enough alone?! Plus I kinda thought Wall E was Short Circuit (he certainly looks like him). What's next?? A remake of Batteries Not Included?? Pft..

[Spitfire]

They will remake everything at some point it seems. That's what sells now because for some reason most movie go-ers hate new material. Remakes and movies based off comics and popular books pull in more cash then new material.

In most cases though I can see why. The frightening truth of how a lot of scripts are written now really makes the future of films look dark.

[Ecto Jedi]

In most cases though I can see why. The frightening truth of how a lot of scripts are written now really makes the future of films look dark.

You talking about your magical, mystical "self-writing" script software? :lol:

[Spitfire]

It's even worse then that. I have a conceptual story telling class and my teacher is someone whose been around the film scene for awhile. He told us he had some writer friends who write scripts and sell them off to studios. They told him they get screwed out of credit on movies because the studios buy their script and 20 or so other scripts of the same type of movie and combine them together into one script.

So the guy who writes the finial is just taking the best scenes out of each script and mashing it into one. That was quite shocking to find out. So his words of advice were "Never become a writer in Hollywood, you'll get screwed." Guys an awesome teacher. Never pulls punches when he's lecturing just speaks his mind.

[Warhorse]

It's even worse then that. I have a conceptual story telling class and my teacher is someone whose been around the film scene for awhile. He told us he had some writer friends who write scripts and sell them off to studios. They told him they get screwed out of credit on movies because the studios buy their script and 20 or so other scripts of the same type of movie and combine them together into one script.

So the guy who writes the finial is just taking the best scenes out of each script and mashing it into one. That was quite shocking to find out. So his words of advice were "Never become a writer in Hollywood, you'll get screwed." Guys an awesome teacher. Never pulls punches when he's lecturing just speaks his mind.

I've got a friend who works in movies, and he pretty much declared the same thing. Studios are being run by a bunch of greedy, money hungry hacks of executives, which probably inherited their jobs as opposed to someone who has worked from the ground up. A good many of the execs are very proud and know it alls, in terms, if it's not their idea, then they wont except it. You know the types.

[Ecto Jedi]

That's why you copyright your sh*t and sue the pants of anyone who steals from your script.

[Jester]

Poor Number Johnny 5. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/Jesterangalo/MALFUNCTION.jpg

Another victim of the Movie Media's Malfunction.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

They will remake everything at some point it seems. That's what sells now because for some reason most movie go-ers hate new material. Remakes and movies based off comics and popular books pull in more cash then new material.

In most cases though I can see why. The frightening truth of how a lot of scripts are written now really makes the future of films look dark.

At least a lot of the comic adaptations haven't been on the big screen before. Well, maybe a good deal of them like Batman and Hulk have been, but Spider-Man was something people waited for for a while.

The amount of remakes lately have been ridiculous. It looks like every last horror movie ever will be remade eventually.

What the hell are they going to do next? Remake the Wizard and have it be about X-Box?

[Spitfire]

That's why you copyright your sh*t and sue the pants of anyone who steals from your script.

You sold it to the studio, it belongs to them now. You get your 10 grand for it and that's it. If you tried to sue them you'd lose because you got paid. It sucks you get no credit but if you want to eat you that's the sacrifice you make.

[Jester]

Could you use your copy of the script as a "See, they cut and paste this script together, here's my contribution."?

[Hero]

No Disassemble!

How about somebody tries to remake a bad film instead...

===HERO

[Brodie]

Short Circuit remake?!

Well, finally. Thank GOD.

[Drtooth]

What the hell are they going to do next? Remake the Wizard and have it be about X-Box?

I'd think it would be about the Wii (and have older kids). Besides, as much as I loved that movie it was one of 2 things, a commercial for Nintendo, and a film Universal threw together because The Jetsons was taking longer than expected.

They will remake everything at some point it seems. That's what sells now because for some reason most movie go-ers hate new material. Remakes and movies based off comics and popular books pull in more cash then new material.


Amen to that. I guess they want to remake absolutely everything from the 80's by the time our generation is too old to care, and the retro-80's rage is over.

[Mecha Cow]

I wonder which celebrity will voice him.

[Jester]

I'd almost rather have a new sequal opposed to the re-make.

[Warhorse]

There's already been a Short Circuit 2. I think this is plain stupid to release a re-make of it. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just re-release the old film in a remastered edition? There have been quite a few robot movies released already.

[Jester]

There's already been a Short Circuit 2. I think this is plain stupid to release a re-make of it. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just re-release the old film in a remastered edition? There have been quite a few robot movies released already.
Like I said, Short Circuit 3 as opposed to a new Short Circuit 1. Heck what are Gutenberg, Shedy, and Stevens doing nowadays anyway. :P

[Drtooth]

There's already been a Short Circuit 2. I think this is plain stupid to release a re-make of it. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just re-release the old film in a remastered edition? There have been quite a few robot movies released already.


hey, if they aren't doing it with Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, which would make more sense if you think about it, there's no way they'd release this in theaters outside of local Midnight movie houses.

[Hero]

Short Circuit 3: Nova's Revenge was allegedly written up as a script and later canned for whatever reason.

===HERO

[Jester]

Seriously? Wow. That sounds cool.